Thomas F. Anderson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813035581
- eISBN:
- 9780813038131
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813035581.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
The chapter considers three poems composed by Afro-Cuban poet Marcelino Arozarena, “La comparsa del majá,” “La conga,” and “Carnaval de Santiago.” In this discussion of these poems, the chapter ...
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The chapter considers three poems composed by Afro-Cuban poet Marcelino Arozarena, “La comparsa del majá,” “La conga,” and “Carnaval de Santiago.” In this discussion of these poems, the chapter argues that through their widely varying depictions of traditional Afro-Cuban carnival celebrations, each serves as an emblematic example of what we might refer to as the three dimensions of Arozarena's poetic production.Less
The chapter considers three poems composed by Afro-Cuban poet Marcelino Arozarena, “La comparsa del majá,” “La conga,” and “Carnaval de Santiago.” In this discussion of these poems, the chapter argues that through their widely varying depictions of traditional Afro-Cuban carnival celebrations, each serves as an emblematic example of what we might refer to as the three dimensions of Arozarena's poetic production.
Thomas F. Anderson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813035581
- eISBN:
- 9780813038131
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813035581.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
Focusing on the representations of carnival and its comparsas (carnival bands and music), this book offers new readings of poems by seminal Cuban poets, examining how their poetic work illustrating ...
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Focusing on the representations of carnival and its comparsas (carnival bands and music), this book offers new readings of poems by seminal Cuban poets, examining how their poetic work illustrating these traditions both contributed to and detracted from the growth of a tangible Afro-Cuban identity. All of these poems relate in some way or the other to the cultural and intellectual phenomenon known as Afrocubanismo. This phenomenon thrived in Havana, initiating in the late 1920s. The book examines, from a literary perspective, the long-running debate between the proponents of Afro-Cuban cultural manifestations and the predominantly white Cuban intelligentsia, who viewed these traditions as “backward” and counter to the interests of the young Republic.Less
Focusing on the representations of carnival and its comparsas (carnival bands and music), this book offers new readings of poems by seminal Cuban poets, examining how their poetic work illustrating these traditions both contributed to and detracted from the growth of a tangible Afro-Cuban identity. All of these poems relate in some way or the other to the cultural and intellectual phenomenon known as Afrocubanismo. This phenomenon thrived in Havana, initiating in the late 1920s. The book examines, from a literary perspective, the long-running debate between the proponents of Afro-Cuban cultural manifestations and the predominantly white Cuban intelligentsia, who viewed these traditions as “backward” and counter to the interests of the young Republic.
Thomas F. Anderson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813035581
- eISBN:
- 9780813038131
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813035581.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This detailed analysis of the poetry associated with the Afrocubanismo movement of the late 1920s infuses new life into the study of these remarkable works. Focusing on the representations of ...
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This detailed analysis of the poetry associated with the Afrocubanismo movement of the late 1920s infuses new life into the study of these remarkable works. Focusing on the representations of carnival and its comparsas (carnival bands and music), this book offers thought-provoking new readings of poems by seminal Cuban poets, demonstrating how their writings on and about these traditions both contributed to and detracted from the development of a recognizable Afro-Cuban identity. It is the first book to examine, from a literary perspective, the long-running debate between the proponents of Afro-Cuban cultural manifestations and the predominantly white Cuban intelligentsia, who viewed these traditions as “backward” and counter to the interests of the young Republic. Including analyses of the work of Felipe Pichardo Moya, Alejo Carpentier, Nicolás Guillén, Emilio Ballagas, José Zacarías Tallet, Felix B. Caignet, Marcelino Arozarena, and Alfonso Camín, this volume offers a fresh look at the canon of Afrocubanismo and gives surprising insights into Cuban culture during the early years of the Republic.Less
This detailed analysis of the poetry associated with the Afrocubanismo movement of the late 1920s infuses new life into the study of these remarkable works. Focusing on the representations of carnival and its comparsas (carnival bands and music), this book offers thought-provoking new readings of poems by seminal Cuban poets, demonstrating how their writings on and about these traditions both contributed to and detracted from the development of a recognizable Afro-Cuban identity. It is the first book to examine, from a literary perspective, the long-running debate between the proponents of Afro-Cuban cultural manifestations and the predominantly white Cuban intelligentsia, who viewed these traditions as “backward” and counter to the interests of the young Republic. Including analyses of the work of Felipe Pichardo Moya, Alejo Carpentier, Nicolás Guillén, Emilio Ballagas, José Zacarías Tallet, Felix B. Caignet, Marcelino Arozarena, and Alfonso Camín, this volume offers a fresh look at the canon of Afrocubanismo and gives surprising insights into Cuban culture during the early years of the Republic.
Anita Casavantes Bradford
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781469611525
- eISBN:
- 9781469611532
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469611525.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter considers the influence of the writings of José Martí—poet, journalist, pedagogue, and revolutionary father of the Cuban nation. Martí's pro-independence writings engendered a uniquely ...
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This chapter considers the influence of the writings of José Martí—poet, journalist, pedagogue, and revolutionary father of the Cuban nation. Martí's pro-independence writings engendered a uniquely permeable Cuban politics of childhood in which a Rousseauian belief in the innate virtue of children and a Lockean notion of the child as tabula coexisted in dynamic tension with repeatedly frustrated efforts to establish honest, effective, and egalitarian government on the island. This tension would be exacerbated by growing U.S. hegemony in Cuba after the end of the war in 1898, driven by the North American belief that Cubans' racial inferiority and political immaturity left them ill-equipped for independence.Less
This chapter considers the influence of the writings of José Martí—poet, journalist, pedagogue, and revolutionary father of the Cuban nation. Martí's pro-independence writings engendered a uniquely permeable Cuban politics of childhood in which a Rousseauian belief in the innate virtue of children and a Lockean notion of the child as tabula coexisted in dynamic tension with repeatedly frustrated efforts to establish honest, effective, and egalitarian government on the island. This tension would be exacerbated by growing U.S. hegemony in Cuba after the end of the war in 1898, driven by the North American belief that Cubans' racial inferiority and political immaturity left them ill-equipped for independence.
